WINTER EARTH STUDY. 499 



Instead of writing about how the snow-flakes look, it may 

 be best for each child who looked carefully at a snow-flake, 

 and thinks he can remember it, to make a drawing of it. 

 Special pains must be taken to have the children draw, as 

 carefully and truthfully as they can, only what each child 

 saw for himself. Discourage and frown upon mere copy- 

 ing. It is, in such work, a species of untruth. 



THE SNOW-FAIRIES. 



I. How the Snow-Fairies Come. 



We all went outdoors. 



We saw the snow-flakes fall. 



They were like little birds. 



We called the snow-flakes snow-fairies. 



They come from cloud-land. 



They fly so softly. 



They dance up and down. 



The wind makes them dance. 



They play like boys and girls. 



They fall so gently. 



We could not feel them fall. 



We love the snow-fairies. 



II. How the Snow-Fairies Make the Earth Beautiful. 



The snow-fairies fall on the trees. 

 They cover some trees with lace. 

 The snow-fairies say to the trees : 



" Thou art so bare and lonely, dear, 

 I'll rest and call my playmates here." 



The snow-fairies look so white on the evergreen trees. 



They make white caps on the posts. 



They cover the dark earth. 



They make a white dress for Mother Earth. 



They shine in the sunlight. 



The snow-fairies make the earth beautiful. 



Mother Earth loves the snow-fairies. 



